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The Commodores were tabbed the country's top team in D1Baseball.com's annual preseason poll, the publication announced Monday. Vanderbilt's last preseason No. 1 ranking came in 2015, when the program was the unanimous top pick following its first national championship the prior season. Read More

A large-scale study conducted among East Asians and led by Vanderbilt researchers has identified multiple, previously unknown genetic risk factors for colorectal cancer. Read More

A team of Vanderbilt investigators has pinpointed the role of bile acids and a specific signaling pathway in the positive metabolic effects of weight-loss surgery. Read More

Out in Front, a unique conference curated for undergraduate and graduate LGBTQIA+ students, is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 23. This year's theme is "Homegrown Futures: Queer Southern Imagination." Read More

Sankaran Mahadevan is leading a team of Vanderbilt engineers in an ambitious NASA effort to revolutionize air traffic control. Read More

Kaitlyn Ayers, a biomedical engineering senior, is likely the only Vanderbilt engineering student whose gap year will include a tiara, a horse and pole bending. Read More

Vanderbilt's Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization, the Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology and Deerfield will bring together experts in discovery and development of antibody therapeutics Jan. 23 to discuss and review state-of-the-art developments in the field. Read More

Check out the live construction camera, download the VandySafe app, and get updates on construction, parking and mobility in the January 2019 issue of the West End Neighborhood e-newsletter. Read More

With David Williams’ retirement, a golden era of Commodore athletics ends. Read More

Craig Lindsley, co-director of the Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Read More

In one of the largest studies of its kind, an international research team led by 20 Vanderbilt University scientists has discovered more than 200 new genetic variations associated with high blood pressure. Read More

A research team led by Russell Rothman has been approved for a $7 million research funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to conduct a trial comparing clinic and consumer information technology approaches to promote healthy behaviors and prevent early childhood obesity. Read More

Drew Gaffney, professor of medicine, emeritus, at Vanderbilt University, will discus “A Medical Journal through Space and Time” on Monday, Jan. 14, as part of the Flexner Deans' Lecture Series. Read More

The Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery presents "Then & Now: Five Centuries of Woodcuts," an exhibition spotlighting prints from Vanderbilt’s collections surveying a wide range of woodcuts created over 500 years and across many cultures, from Jan. 10 through March 1. Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center will welcome Asst. Sec. Lance Robertson, administrator and assistant secretary for aging, Administration for Community Living (ACL), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as its 2019 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Series keynote speaker. Read More

Celebrate good health each winter holiday season with the Health Plus Hold the Stuffing Challenge. Take the holiday challenge to maintain weight from November to January and earn rewards. Read More

Are you interested in learning more about the latest and greatest ways to lose weight? Health Plus' Marissa Wertheimer will offer up-to-date scientific evidence about the top five fad diets and will provide tools and resources to guide you in making informed choices. Read More

Vanderbilt University may submit one application to ACMP Chamber Music Workshop Grants. Chamber music workshops for adult amateurs are a priority of ACMP (Associated Chamber Music Players). Read More

Vanderbilt's Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization, the Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology and Deerfield will bring together experts in discovery and development of antibody therapeutics Jan. 23 to discuss and review state-of-the-art developments in the field. Read More

Shortly after graduating from law school, Bailey Spaulding got a harebrained idea: She’d open a brewery and name it the Jackalope Brewing Co., after the mythical rabbit–antelope hybrid that she believed in as a kid. Seven years after the business was launched in Nashville’s Gulch neighborhood, Jackalope makes… Read More